Prominent PDP leader Chief Dan Ulasi has denied that Governor Siminalayi Fubara is capable of leading on his own and maintained that Nyesom Wike, the FCT Minister, promised him political favours, which helped him gain power.CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
He questioned whether Fubara truly earned his position or was merely a beneficiary of Wike’s political empowerment. He recalled his conversation with Fubara and how he had warned him against succumbing to the corrupting influence of power as governor.
He said in an interview with AIT, ‘I heard the governor in his recent interview, and I listened to the FCT minister in his interview as well. And he [Wike] said, the governor claimed that he asked him for money, but that is not true. And this is because, I had the singular privilege when I was directing the campaign in the Southeast for Atiku Abubakar, to go meet Wike. And that was the day I met this guy called Fubara, and he came in with some files, and Wike told me, he would be his successor. And I made one comment to him [Fubara], I said, you know you’re going to run the affairs of one of the richest states in this country, he said, yes sir.
And I said, every month you might see about 15 to 20 billion naira under your control. And I told him, power does not change a human being, it reveals whom you are. What happened between Ngige and Chris Uba in Anambra state is what is happening in Rivers State. Somebody was telling me, that he [Wike] appointed everybody. The way he [Fubara] was picked was the way Wike begged a lot of people to support him. He made a lot of promises, that if you help me to make Fubara governor of Rivers state, you will be commissioner of the state, and you will become Chairman. Was he [Fubara] the one who made himself?'”CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
